Music

The Lovely Mariah Carey has given men around the world an early X-Mas treat by donning a rather nifty Santa suit in the video for the Duet re-release of her classic X-mas Number “All I Want For Christmas Is You”. It also features Justin Bieber who still looks young enough to still believe in Santa, especially given he seems more interested in the 3DS console.

Kelly Clarkson the original American Idol is back on form with her latest single taken from the studio album “Stronger”, is a slight change of pace from some of her other songs but the soulful vocals and the piano and drums make it rather catchy; somewhat reminiscent of a young Tina Turner.

She performed it live on “The View” looking kinda cute with a pony tail in a figure hugging dress. The spikey bracelet looked a bit frightening though.

The official video is pretty cool too

We are looking forward to hearing the rest of the album which is out now.

Lady Gaga lived up to the hype big style as she put on a tremendous performance at Sundays BBC Big Weekend in Carlisle. Arriving fashionably late as befits musics biggest and brightest Diva she proceeded to wow the fans with a few of her biggest hits and a cool medley, before treating the older generation to some surprisingly good Jazz which exemplified her considerable talent. Finishing off with songs from her latest album was the icing on the cake and rounded off the performance of the festival in great style.

So captivated were the audience that during some of her songs the crowd were almost silent, something which almost never happens, and her emotion was almost touching at times.

Well I never thought we would end up gushing fans but all we can say is thank you Lady Gaga for lighting up Carlisle afor an hour.

BBC are showing the highlights tonight on BBC 3 and no doubt You Tube will soon be abuzz with clips. Our advice is go watch them and we will have some posted here real soon.